Alliance2015 Campaigns and Advocacy Work

Alliance2015's advocacy and campaigning is about seeking lasting change to the lives of people living in poverty across the developing world.  We look to mobilise public and political support across the EU and level for achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

Our work focuses on MDGs 1 and 2 (hunger and education). The EU has approved a new Alliance2015 advocacy programme that started at the beginning of 2013. We also received funding for a new awareness campaign on hunger and nutrition: Food Right Now! targetting a young audience. Our longest-running campaign is the Stop Child Labour Campaign, which has had remarkable success since 2003 in contributing to getting children out of work and into school. In its third phase of funding from the EC, this campaign has been extended until 2014.   

Additionally, the Global Hunger Index, co-authored by Concern, Welthungerhilfe and IFPRI, is enjoying more and more support from the Alliance2015 members. The 2012 report focused on the issue of resource scarcity and how to ensure sustainable food security under conditions of land, water and energy stress.   The report received significant uptake with country programmes organising launches, presentations and media outreach in Kenya, Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Mozambique.  It was also launched in Dublin, London, Brussels, Milan, Paris, Des Moines and Berlin, each building on the growing public, policy and political interest in the report’s findings and recommendations.